Post Industrial Times

[AndrewMcD]

A few images from a visit to the old mill village where I lived as a child.


1.) Geometry





2.) The Vinery





3.) The Panes of Aging





4.) The Fan

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[DanK]

Interesting images. Some planners call this genre "ruin porn", but I like it and do a bit of it myself.

Two suggestions:

1. You aren't making use of a full tonal range, particularly in #1. Perhaps that was intentional, but to my taste, it makes the images a bit drab. For the first one, I started by simply dropping the white point to expand the tonal range and adding a modest curve for contrast. These two things were enough to add a lot of pop, and they brought out the lines (e.g., the diagonal) that are among the key parts of the image. I think #3 has the same issue, although less so, and the same edits helped there too, IMHO.

2. I think your framing is not optimal in #3. The top looks chopped off. I think I would have left all of the copper gutter showing.

Hope this helps

[FootLoose]

I think Dan has nailed the problems with this batch. The 4th would be better without the split frame. I'd try cropping everything left of that vertical and below the horizontal plane with the shadows (window sill?) That would just leave the radial blades against a mottled background which would then work with your abstract project.

[AndrewMcD]

Thank you for the comments! It really is helpful to have others express a point of view as so often I am too close to my own images and fail to see what they need.

The first image a bit whiter:






the second image I like as is......and the third I had to straighten a bit which compromised the gutter above.....live and learn.


the fourth image cropped as suggested...mixed feelings .....in the end it's kind of a ho-hum image which is so often the case when one attempts something a bit abstract, though in this version it rattles the eye a bit less